Equipment that we used when Filming

We mainly used the Media Departments equipment for things such as the camera and lights (red heads).  We had to sign a form to book the equipment for the dates we needed it. The documents says that we will take responsibility for the equipment and that we will ensure its safe keeping. The forms confirmed the insurance of the equipment as it is very expensive to fix or replace:

We also rented equipment from the company "Shock AV" to assist us with the lighting. We kept all our equipment that we needed to use in the Media Suite until the end of the day from where we loaded it onto the bus to be transported the location. This included equipment such as the Canon camera, red heads, a dolly and a tripod:

A few days before we filmed I had a look through the instruction manual to gain a bit more knowledge of how the camera works:

I also brought along to the shoot some simple equipment that I personally owned to help us. For example, I brought a 50 metre extension cable and a multiple plug socket as well as the lighting gels I was given from my work experience in Leeds. We used yellow ones to create an effect that the light source illuminating the characters was the light of buses and the blue gel we used was to create the illusion of moonlight. Unfortunately, we were unable to rent tracks so alternatively we used my mum's car for the tracking shot.

On set, we used walkie talkies to communicate with each other. For example, when we filmed the over the shoulder shot on the top deck of a bus looking down on the depot worker walking along the row of buses, Liat and Megan told Joel and I to start filming just before they told Elliott (our actor) to start walking. Communication worked both ways as Joel and I needed to tell Liat and Megan to wait while we got the camera lens in focus before the character started to act. The walkie talkies allowed us to do this with ease instead of having to shout or run to tell the others to start acting/filming.